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JAKARTA - Hundreds of police and military personnel are stepping up their search of the remote Papuan jungle for the attackers of a convoy of mainly international workers at the weekend. Three people -- two Americans and an Indonesian -- were killed and 10 others injured in the attack which occurred on a road leading to a U.S.-owned copper and gold mine in the remote Indonesian province of Papua, formerly called Irian Jaya. Eight wounded -- including a six-year-old girl -- have been taken to Townsville hospital in northern Australia.
Indonesian officials said reinforcements were being moved to the area in a bid to track down up to 15 people believed to be responsible for the attack on two vehicles which were carrying international schoolteachers and their families. Officials also said the United States had offered help to Indonesian's security forces in locating the perpetrators. But for now the search is being hampered by thick fog in the region.
The mine, owned by resources giant Freeport McMoRan, is in a mountainous area of Papua province which forms the western half of the large tropical island of New Guinea directly to the north of Australia. Indonesian security forces have already clashed with gunmen in the region since the convoy ambush, killing one man in a firefight.
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